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pelea

Spanish, noun

pelea is a Spanish feminine noun meaning “fight, brawl” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a third-person singular present indicative of pelear. With an accent, peleá is a different word: “second-person singular voseo imperative of pelear”. The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Acción o efecto de pelear”.

What does pelea mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    femininefight, brawl

  2. 2

    femininestruggle (physical)

  3. 3

    femininequarrel, argument

  4. 4

    femininefight, bout

verb

  1. 1

    third-person singular present indicative

  2. 2

    second-person singular imperative

verb

as peleá
  1. 1

    second-person singular voseo imperative of pelear

Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How Spanish dictionaries define it

noun: 1. Acción o efecto de pelear. 2. Combate deportivo. 3. Sinónimo del género Melicope, que recoge a más de 600 especies de plantas de flores, de la especie Rutaceae.

The definition in the Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), in Spanish.

Source: Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.

Forms of pelea

  • peleas plural

Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

English words that translate to pelea

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is pelea in Spanish?

pelea appears 39 times per million words in written Spanish.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).